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Updated: June 28, 2025
At Clayoquot was built the first American fort on the Pacific coast. Here Gray erected winter quarters. The Columbia was unrigged and beached. The dense forest rang with the sound of the choppers. The enormous spruce, cedar, and fir trees were hewn into logs for several cabins and a barracks, the bark slabs being used as a palisade. Inside the main house were quarters for ten men.
Not only the soldiers, but many civilian employees, are supported by the post, and when it is understood that three thousand cords of wood are burned annually in the military reservation, it will be seen that quite a number of men must find work as choppers and haulers for the wood contractors.
You can have one hundred pounds of sausage from twelve hundred weight of pork, and since the introduction of sausage choppers, a great deal more sausage is made, than formerly, by the old method.
The graves are rarely more than three feet deep. The Dyaks dare not step into the grave to deepen it, because, according to their superstitious ideas, any one who does such a thing will die a violent death. They use no spade or hoe to turn up the earth, but cut the soil with their choppers, and throw up the mould with their hands. They dig the grave as far as their arms will reach, and no farther.
You'd ought to hear him light into the choppers when they forget to leave the seed-pines or when they cut under six inches butt diameter." Mr. Welles had no more notion what cutting under six inches butt diameter meant than he had of the name of the little brown bird who sang so sweetly in his elm; but Paul's voice and that of the nameless bird gave him the same pleasure.
The tough, experienced old choppers welcomed him with keen interest and played freeze-out each night in the bunk-houses to see which one should draw him for a partner next day; for the choppers worked in pairs, likewise the cross-cut men.
"Yes," said Carrie, sitting down. "I went North with Jim and my brother and the boys, when the ice broke up." "The boys?" "The rock-cutters and choppers," Carrie explained. "I see," said Bernard. "Was there no other woman? What did you do?" "The nearest woman was a hundred miles off. I cooked and looked after the stores. Sometimes I mended the clothes." "And how were the others occupied?"
Jackum took the lead by snatching the spear from Carey, evidently considering that the position required skilled instead of amateur manipulation; and, as his fellows turned their paddles into choppers and struck heavily at the shark's back, Jackum drove his spear down with all his might.
Instead of giving him up and claiming the reward, Ben kept the runaway over there in the marshes all summer. The negro fished, and Ben carried him scraps of other food. Then, by and by, the facts leaked out. Some wood- choppers went on a hunt for the fugitive and chased him to what was called Bird Slough. There, trying to cross a drift, he was drowned.
"We must have scouts, guides, spies, cooks, teamsters, diggers, and choppers, from the Blacks of the South whether we allow them to fight for us or not or we shall be baffled and repelled.
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